Hairpin



Aug. a, 1926. 1,594,933

l. M. DURAND HAIRPIN Filed Nov. 2, 1925 JNVENTOQIE f Duran 15 M76 HTTOENEY Patented Aug. 3, 1926.

UNITED STA IDA M. DURAND, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HAIRLPIN'.

Application filed November 2, 1925. Serial No. 66,315.

-My invention relates to hair-pins and especially to a novel method of preventing them from being dislodged from the hair by accident or otherwise.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a hair-pin which may be used for holding bobbed hair in place,. so that a variety of curvilinear outlines maybe given to the front hair so that when the proper contour is obtained it is held permanently in position.

Other and further objects and advantages of my invention will be noted from the specification, claim and drawings, in Wl11Cl'lZ-- Fig. l is a perspective View, showing the use of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of the hair-pin.

The style now in vogue of wearing the hair bobbed or cut short has made the conventional hair-pin useless for the reason that the hair, being worn loose and flufiy, the ordinary hair-pin will not remain long in a fixed position, hence any amount of care and skill exercised in giving to the front hair a contour that best harmonizes with the features is lost on the slightest movement of the body, because the hair-pins being insorted in loose, fluffy hair have nothing to hold them from becoming loose and lost.

lVhen the hair was worn long and could be twisted and coiled, certain portions of it laid closer together and became more dense, so that it afforded a suflicient amount of frictional contact with the hair-pins to hold hem in place.

To overcome the objections above set forth and to provide a hair-pin that will remain in a fixed position until manually released, I have devised a hair-pin, as illustrated. in Fig. 2, having one end formed into a loop 1 in the same manner as conventional hairpins are made and having two opposite members 2 and 3, substantially parallel to each other and provided with a plurality of waves l. The leg 3 is of materially greater length than theopposite leg and is turned backward in a hook 5, parallel with the major axis of the leg.

It is obvious that when inserted into the hair a portion of the hair will enter the loop 1 and another portion will enter the hook 5, thus the hair will be bound together and the hair-pin cannot be removed except by a conscious act of thefwearer. Therefore, by pins, as shown in the dotted lines at 6, any desired outline can be given to the front hair, as indicated at 7 and also the hair is held together in a fixed position as indicated at 8.

By constructing the hair-pins of very fine wire, they thus become invisible and add greatly to the comfort as well as to the beauty of the wearer.

It is apparent that the annoyance and discomfort occasioned by the losing of hair pins would be entirely obviated since the pins cannot be loosened or lost by accident but remain firmly in place until removed by the wearer.

It is obvious that the same results could be obtained by bending both legs of the hair-pin, but I have found by experience that such a construction would make it a very difiicult matter to remove the hair-pins when necessary'and, therefore, I

the use of two or more hair have shown only oneleg turned back as my preferred method of construction.

Having fully described my invention and the manner of its use and construction, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A hair-pin of the class described, comprising a plurality of members integrally joined together at one end in the form of a loop and having the opposite end of one of the members formedinto a hook adapted to hook around strands of hair to prevent the said hair-pin from being withdrawn from the hair except by a conscious act of a person, the hook at one end and the loop at the opposite end being disposed in the same plane.

" In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this 23rd day of October IDA M. DURAND. 

